Suspect defaces posters left behind by Purdue anti-racism protesters

4:23 PM,
Apr. 23, 2013

About 200 members of Purdue University's student body, staff and faculty marched from the Purdue Black Cultural Center to Hovde Hall Monday, APril 22, 2013, in protest of racially charged vandalism at the university. The march was aimed at alerting Purdue's top administrators and President Mitch Daniels to what organizers believe are recurring ignorance and racism at Purdue.

Written by

Hayleigh Colombo
hcolombo@butler.edu

Less than a day after more than 200 protesters took to the steps of Purdue University's Hovde Hall to alert the university's top brass about racial discrimination at Purdue, police are investigating an incident in which a defacer allegedly wrote a racial slur on one of the posters left behind by the group.

The incident, in which someone wrote a racial slur and a stick figure drawing of a body hanging from a tree on a placard and is being treated as a hate crime, likely occurred around 9:15 a.m. this morning, according to a statement released by Purdue.